I know i have been a whiny baby. But now I have trouble driving so I am only driving around town. He!!, all three cars are in use so I can't get to one anyhow. I think I had a tia over the last couple of days and I was very weak on my right, Good thing I am left handed.
I want to volunteer, but with no car that is kind of difficult and I am scared stiff about scaring the boys. To quote Michael Corleone, "this is not what I wanted."
I don't want to have my head carved open again and I miss
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No, I wasn't on a cheese holiday.(who get's that reference?)
A very nice day. Today I felt almost ready to fence in a tournament. I fenced two weapons, which is a mistake from the get go.
I started with epee and worked out some of the advance retreat issues. Of course, by later in the day I was too tired to move. I got to the point where I knew when an attack was coming and I just watched it happen. They look real pretty, but the wrong light goes off.
I can’t explain it. I think of 100 reasons not to fence and I make myself go. I feel so good now and I am in a great mood. I worked out with an AB all day, it was nice because he is another left hander, so now I have trouble fencing righties.
However every week I get reminded about the damage to my brain. Muscle memory, pooh. The Dr. has shown me the parts of my brain that are dead. It is trying to rewire, but until it does I just don’t have the reflexes I used to. This isn’t age, bef
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Ok, one of my many freak outs is should I just have the bypass surgery now and avoid the rush.
So I just called to talk to the resident about things because she is very close to the case, but she is done with her rotation. So who do I get? Dr. Spetzler himself, I almost blew my aneurysm.
He said there is no reason not to wait until next summer. If I have incidents before then we can reassess but I am cleared to fence.
I joked about using it as a reason for fencing poorly and he laugh
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Mr. No point control. When I fenced AB the safest place to be was right in front of me.
Unfortunately the new chair fencer could not make it today. However, the therapist did bring some other guys over. She is part of a program called “wounded warriors” for veterans with various disabilities.
It was so much fun working with these guys and doing what I could do on my feet. There was talk about letting them try chair fencing but I had to leave to spring my Scotties out of doggie priso
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I just finished wrapping up the rest of my office and it is sitting around me in boxes and bubble wrap. I am the original measure once cut twice guy. I underestimated what I needed and it was like a trip to Home Depot. Good thing the box store is right across the street. If it ain't a three tripper...
I am still waiting for the paperwork from my doctor so I can go out on disability. Because if I don't officers, C level and down to a certain level of manager are getting permanent pay cut
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The only thing worse than getting pummeled all day is getting pummeled all day by your own weapon. The AB who fenced me today borrowed one of my weapons and beat the tar out of me all day. Ok, it was another leftie so I’ll use that excuse.
Actually it was a great day. He worked with me on drills and “live fire” fencing so we tried to come up with work arounds for things I can’t do since my brain injuries, OK, part of it I I am 54 and he is about 17 and very fast, but he taught me some go
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I just finished scoping the latest copy of American Fencer magazine and they had an article reviewing some of the Olympic and Paralympic teams.
In case you haven't seen it, my coach,(Scott Rodgers) who just moved to Washington on me, is a three time paralympian, 13 time US champion, former ranked number one on the world in epee and number 2 in the world in foil, World Cup medalist.
He is the nicest guy. He is patient and jokes with me having to learn the same things over every week beca
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I have 4 very heavy boxes of texts and stuff from my bookshelf. I can't believe how long it has been since I used them for reference, and there is some good stuff there.
I dropped my disability paperwork off at the Dr yesterday. I am going to go out before they cut my salary in 1/2. I was told by my boss and the president that I am going on disability. I was also told all the officers are taking a pay cut. We'll see.
I did learn yesterday that the area in which I had my latest strok
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Well, I wanted to fence in the worst way, and that’s what I did. I was a human pincushion, but I was there. 6 weeks from a stroke and learning about the growth of my aneurysms and I am back. I started by practicing lunges and trying to remember to yank back for my “retreat” and be in position for a parry riposte.
All I had to fence were young able bodies. Sheesh they are fast. Of course the fact that I let them say “fence” (there was a class going on so it was hard to get a ref. So I
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10-28-2009 12:39 PM 